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Hi, Can I build VLC with X11 to play video? I've built console VLC 1.1.4 player without qt4 or wxwidgets on debian, it can play audio but no video. The alternative I like to use wxwidgets, but I could not find wx in configure file. Does VLC support wxwidgets, how to specify wxwidgets path? Thank you...

This API can be backported. Would you please explain me the details of which version of VLC source code contains last verion of the API for backporting to 0.9 VLC, and which directories where the API source code located? Do I need a permission to start the backport process? I can start the backport...

Hi, As no one responded me following question, I assume that the subtitle API in plugins does not work in 0.9 VLC. I am a C/C++ developer and I can help to make the subtitle API work. Having said that, I am still new to VLC and it is my first time to work with open source development. I don't know w...

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I used following command to add subtitle to a video file, but the text from the big.srt did not insert to the video file when I play back the sub.mp4. Any advice what was I missing please?

$MP4Box -add sub.srt -add tennis.mp4 -new sub.mp4

Hi Jean-Paul Saman, I was advised that you committed play subtitle API on master :: rbe9c509e4c vlc/projects/mozilla/test.html: (link) Add subtitle and teletext JS API to test.html http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=be9c509e4c1b7fbeffc421f472ddb9e0b0486f86 Could you please advice...

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Is there an API to display subtitle SRT file in mozilla and activex plugin? If so, please give an example of the API.

Thank you.

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I've got following errors while running a video mp4 file with a subtitle file:

[00000470] freetype spu text error: file sub.srt have unknown format

Has anyone have a good sample subtitle srt file I can use it for testing?

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Is there anyway to add a subtitle file sub.txt into an mp4 file av.mp4 by ffmpeg and play back the video / audio files by 0.9 VLC? If yes, would you please give an example of the command line to do it?

Thank you.

Hi, I play audio on VLC ActiveX and Mozilla plugins. I like to display audio information (sound title, etc) on the plugin screen. I have following questions: 1. Is there VLC plugin API to get audio information? 2. Is it possible to display audio information to plugin screen? If it is yes, please pro...

Hi, With the QT4 default skin, I can see a menu including a Playlist. I can go Playlist->Additional Sources to select a playlist source which added to the palylist. In all other new skins, I could not find this option. How can add additional sources such as in default skin to a playlist in a new skin?

Hi, Is it a bug on 0.9.2 for document.vlc.playing? I play following script from 0.9.2 ActiveX plugin on IE. The document.vlc.playing was correct at begin, then it got wrong after caling document.vlc.play() in second time. The video is playing, but the document.vlc.playing stuck at value of "fal...

Hi, I built git source on Cygwin and read vlc/vlc-1.0.0-git/activex/README.TXT for how to install ActiveX plugin for IE. My understanding if to install axvlc.dll as following step, it should work. Please correct me and please advise how to fix the following error: 1. Copy vlc/vlc-1.0.0-git/activex//...

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For linux, I can build mozila plugin by --with-mozilla-sdk-path=/usr/lib/xulrunner-sdk-1.9/sdk. But there is no xulrunner-sdk in win32 Contrib. How can get the mozilla SDK for building win32 mozilla plugin?

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Has anyone installed xulrunner-devel on FC or CentOS to build VLC mozilla plugin with --with-mozilla-sdk-path=/usr/lib/xulrunner-sdk-1.9/sdk? It missed some files in sdk/include (althought it can be fixed), but it really failed at prtypes.h. Or did I install a wrong Mozilla SDK pacakge?

Hello, running Ubuntu, for Firefox I had to create the plugins dir and create a link to libvlcplugin.so in it Enter this in console, or Konsole for you: 1) cd ~/.mozilla 2) mkdir plugins 3) cd plugins 4) ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so . restart Firefox check in about:plugins libvlcp...

Hi, I downloaded git source on 4 Setember, it built fine, but failed following: $ make package-win32-base OK. cp "./bin/.libs/vlc.exe" "./vlc-1.0.0-git/" cp "./extras/package/win32/vlc.exe.manifest" "./vlc-1.0.0-git/" cp "./src/.libs/libvlccore.dll" ...

Hi, I built VLC in my Debian local directory and I like to install VLC plugin to browser manually as I have different browsers firefox, opera, etc which were also built from the source tree locally. I've read the document of VLC plugin which asking to use VLC Debian binary to install the plugin. Has...

Hi, I built 0.9 in my local directory for both linux and window platforms. I want to plug the vlc in to the firefox in linux and IE in Window vista. Can I just copy the plugin file directly tot he browser plugin directories? I read the howto document, it says "Copy the two files in VLC_Installa...

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VLC version 0.9.0 Grishenko. It was downloaded from git source tree a week ago.

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I can set up shoutcast and see all Radio (or TV) stations on playlist on 0.9 VLC. But, when I clicked one station, it played, stopped and deleted the station from the playlist in about one second, then it moved to play next station. Anyone know what is the problem?

I meant: Read at vlc-config, understand what it does roughtly and look at the place it sets the ldflags and cflags for the libavcodec module I added -DDATA_PATH and -DPLUGIN_PATH to the vlc-config cflags and added ffmpeg with ldconfig: $ ./vlc-config --cflags -I/home/project/work/project/MediaPlaye...

My vlc.txt size is about 510127 you mean vlc.exe? With nightlies its size should be at near 92,0 KB Cygwin compiled executables require cygwin dll and nobody wants that on native Win environment. You can get latest builds from nightlies. http://nightlies.videolan.org/ Thanks for your link. I found ...

Compile works with Vista, and yes, compile takes a long time with Cygwin. Remember to use -j2 or similar switch with make to make building faster. I usually run VLC directly from c:\VLC\vlc\vlc-0.9.0 using Windows Explorer. Cygwin shell is sometimes very picky about file usage rights so I you haven...

Does pkg-config --libs libavcodec gives -lz in the list ? Could you paste the line relevant to libavcodec, libavformat and libswscale from vlc-config? $ pkg-config --libs libavcodec -L/home/project/work/Tools/Media/Ffmpeg/Install/lib -lavcodec Is it ok only with -l no -lz? Did you mean to paste abo...

Here is a VLC config that I'm using with yesterday NB and the august 08 contribs. It works fine. PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH \ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/win32/lib/pkgconfig \ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/win32/include -I/usr/win32/include/ebml" \ LDFLAGS=-L/usr/win32/lib \ CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX...